Things happen. You didn't buy your disc already broken, now did you? Tape or glue won't fix that. The game has been playable before the 1.2 patch for the utmost majority of the game. People have sunk hours into it. That's getting your moneys worth already. People are just crybabies. This generation has updates and whatnot for a reason.
there in lies the problem, we've sunk hours into the game, developing our characters, completing side quests as well as main quests, and that is what a RPG game is about, spending hours on hours of play to develop your character into what you want them to be. Many people haven't even scratched the serface of the the game play and have already advanced their characters to level 30-40 even higher, having to start from scratch again (for those individuals who can) from a broken patch isn't crying or whining, people are upset and they have every right to be from what I can see is going on. I dont blame them for being mad, honestly I sat here for 20 minutes before deciding to decline the patch, and after testing the patch on a different 360 and seeing just how badly it adversely effected previous save files, I have still chose not to update. The game worked good, it worked decent, prior to the patch. There are instances if you do not follow a certain pattern to the quests you can cause other quests to become uncompletable, but that was tolerable as their are hundreds of quests though the game to play through. The only individuals who I can see calling others cry babies for their saved games no longer working properly for them, are those individuals who do not normally play RPG games and are more versed in Shooter style games.
Many valid points were brought up about the patch, being that the PS3 version of the patch, had the same ill effects to players games as the xbox 360 version, Bethesda Softworks could of pulled the patch before it was released in a last stitch effort to prevent more customers from being disgruntled over this. Being the majority of individuals are being effected by this patch in a ill manor it would of been in Bethesda Softworks best interest to pull the patch before its release, but they chose not to, knowing that it would cause even more upset with more customers after seeing the floods of reports from PS3 users.
People are not reacting well to the change, and many are just yelling fix it, but still, one shouldn't start calling people names just because they are upset (yes that goes for those who are upset as well) I for one hope that they put out some sort of a fix for this, as this is a core problem with the save file itself caused by the patch, and not just some random glitch.